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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1957)
Comforts of Holhf . u ... In Remodeled Mii Hong Kong (0" Capt. Chet Brown, an American pilot with Thai Airways, and his wife will have all the comforts ofciome when ijoey set sail on a South Pacificruise. Brown has had a motor launch, resembling a motor fishing ves sel (MFV) converted into a lux ury yact at a Hong Kong ship yard to fulfill a long-time dream of "owning a boat to live on." The vessel has an automatic dishwasher, automatic laundry and dryer, a 14-foot deep-freeze, a 14-footrefrigerator, an auto matic coffee-maker and a stove. JSnch of the two staterooms has four bunks with air-foam mattresses. Each also has a pri vate bathroom with tile walls and with hot and cold running water. Q Except for the engine room, the boat will be air-conditioned. The main cabin, large as many living roomrashore, is furrfghed just a in a house, and even has a hi-8' tape recorder installed. Besides, a two-way radio, the vessel also has been equipped with depth sounders and an auto matic pilot. Renovation of the boat, the Nancy B, has taken 18 months. Brown first wants to cruise the South Pacific to revisit pla ces he saw during World War II. Then he is thinking of sailing to the United States via the In dian Ocean, East Africa anr)the Mediterranean. hfisfffis C3fd Buying ljg!wo Billion Mark &.'() tear marga) the 82nd births J?the mSrican Chriit- m) car3l Badk, in 1875, Lou Pranf) the noted lithcifprspner craftsman 6$) Roxbury," Miu., hesitanti published the coun try rst Christmai) cards ani wondered anybody oulf Iju them! Th year, moi than ttro lion, four hundred million Chrirt mas greetings ill 'fly through the mai before Christmas IJye, an average et) better thin r5V cards per family. It will require nearly 470 million worth of post age stamps to transport this tre mendous flood of) ChriVnat cheer through the mails) ThJ) orldSBra ChrUtmafc card was designed in la3 by John , Calcott fiorffley, R.&., painter (Shd illuStrettor (tt Sir Henry Cole, thg inaugurator .and first director of the Victoria ejnd Albert Museum in Hmdon, Eng land. lu 186, (6 thousand eopiea were lithographed, hrjd-olor4 and sold "by elix Summrrly'i Treasure House in Bond Street, an art shop which Cole had sat up in order to improvf the tastfc NO NTft Montreal ftP) Sidewalk sup erintendents were supplied with six peepholes on a construction job here. From top to bottom, they're labeled: o"large," "medi um," "small," "boys and girls," "dofls," and "cats." YOU CAN REDUCE your Christmas shopping prob lems to practically nil, by selecting gifts of fragrant by SimonettcPfor the very discriminating on your Christmas list. Simonetta, Italy's famous couturier, 'has created the Incanto Travel Duet especially for Christmas. Matched togeth er in this gift of classic elegance, are Incanto Cologne and Incanto Bath Oil. Why not stop in at Hudson Pharmacy and let me (Ethel Lockard) show you this classic presenta tion. $3.50. ' ETHEL LOCKARD rf his; contemporsries. Th first Christmas card did ncrt arcuae any grest enthusiasm unoej the English people, in fact, aome of the Puritans frown ed on the central illustration of card depicting the convivi ality of the SMon. Actually, It va not until 1880 that the eurtjom of fending Christmas card became established throughout the British Empire. Louis Prang arrived in New York City in 1850. A skilled calico printer ffam Germany, he wax 26 end elm oat penniless. Eventually, he opened a small lithographing shop in Boston where he specialized in delicately-tinted flower prints and con tinued te perfect the recently invented processes of color lithography. By 1870, he was well estab lished in his own plant in Rox bury where his reproductions of oil paintings were so finely exe cuted that he enjoyed a sizable busineB in England. A woman employee in his London offiee suggested that he print "Merry Christmas" on some of his floral prints in the space on the margin. By 1874, h$ was enjoying a good British Christmas card trade, and bo, felt encouraged to offer hi Christmas cards to the Amer ican public in 1875. They were an instant success, with their new combinations of attractive designs and holiday sentiments. Flower Deeigas Prang's early cards pictured sprinelifte roses, daisies, scarlet geraniums) spray of apple blos soms, and it was several years before anything resembling the modern Christmas card symbols were introduced into his line. By the middle 1880's, Prang was prjnting five million Christ mas cards a year, and they had become a major part of his busi ness. In 1883, he paid one artist, Dora Wheeler, $2,000 an unheard-of-price for one prize Christmas card design. Prang's cards are still famous among collectors because of their appealing illustrations and pain staking craftsmanship. Some de signs were printed in as many as 17 different colors to achieve delicate, life-like gradations of tone. Many of the cards were Girl Scouts Pins and Needles dut r Officers of Girl Scout Troop 190 and the Pins and Needles 4-H Sewing club Nov. 18 re ceived Instruction from Mrs. Arthur Straus on how to con duet a meeting. Officers of the Pins and Needles club conducted the meeting. During the club's Nov. 12 meeting the group held a dem onstration on how to thread a sewing machine and start sew ing with it. Colleen Franek, Mary Daniels, Carolyn Barnes and Virginia Chadd gave the demonstration. The club is holding a contest on caring for clothes. One star Is good for 1,000 points, it was announced during the Nov. 25 meeting. A visit was made to the Singer Sewing machine com pany where members made book markers. The next Pins and Needles 4-H meeting is at the home of Carolyn Barnes on Dec. 0. Reporter 0 Gloria Thompson Central Point embellished with luxurious silk fringes. They sold for as much as $3 each to the deluxe trade. At the peak of his success in 1890, Prang abruptly discon tinued publishing Christmas cards because of a flood of shoddy foreign imitations that came on the market. This brought on an era of cheap nov elty Christmas greetings, some in post card form. Modern Phase With the disappearance of the Prang creations from the Ameri can scene, the Christmas card business was in the doldrums for about 15 years. In the early 1900's, some of today's leading greeting card publishers were founded, artd the modern phase of the Christmas card, as . we know it today, began. At the close of World War I the custom took on added im petus. Modern graphic arts proc esses enabled the Christmas card designers to regain the beauty and appeal of the first American jChristmas cards so that in the span of a single lifetime, Christ mas cards have developed from a penniless immigrant's dream to one of the nation's most uni versal a6d well-loved Christmas customs. Twenty per eent of at teries sold in the U. S. are. put chased by farmers. Half-Size Basic 9292 W 1 l4E3 Fashion's tvorit shesjth pro portioned for half-sizers. If you're shorter, fuller, saw this Printed Pattern in basic black, winter navy, or sapphire blue for flattery in the NSv Year. Printed Pattern 992: Half Sizes 1412, 16, I8V2, 22V2, (4V2. Size 16ii requires 25s yards 54-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-classd mailing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. 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